Facebook is adding new security features, which come after a
pair of high-profile cracks in the site’s defenses that surfaced
this week.

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・beef[verb] (beef something < -> up)
⇒ to improve something or make it more interesting, more important etc

・hack [noun]
⇒a way of using a computer to get into someone else’s computer system without their permission

・crack[noun]
⇒ a piece of information or computer code that lets you illegally change free software which may lack certain features of the full version, so that the free software works in the same way as the full version

Under heavy pressure from the United States and allied
governments, WikiLeaks appealed to supporters worldwide to
mirror its website Sunday as it continued the process of
releasing thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables.

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・allied[adjective]
⇒ connected with each other because of being similar to or dependent on each other

・sensitive[adjective]
⇒ easily affected or damaged by something such as a substance or temperature

・diplomatic[adjective]
⇒ relating to or involving the work of diplomats

If consumers like the new Windows 7 operating system, they’ll
have the much-maligned Windows Vista to thank. It also turns out
that the vast headaches created by Vista were just what the PC
industry needed to improve their cooperation.

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・malign[verb, adj.]
⇒ to say bad things about sb/sth publicly

・vast[adj.]
⇒ extremely large in area, size, amount, etc.

・headache[noun]
⇒ a continuous pain in the head

・cooperation[noun]
⇒ the fact of doing sth together or of working together towards a shared aim